Lantern-bottom.



Ionic. 6, 1903.

PATENTED T. J. LITLE; JR. LANTERN BoiroM.v

APPLIOATION FILED JUNE 22, i903.

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UNITED STATES Patented October 6, 1903.

PATENT OFFICE.

LANTERN-BOTTONI.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 740,667, dated October 6, 1903.

Application led June 22, 1903. Serial No. 162,501. (No model.) A

To @ZZ whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, THOMAS J. LTTLE, Jr.,

' a citizen of the United States, residing at Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a certain new and useful Lantern-Bottom, of which the following is a specification.

Objects of the presentinvention are to prevent drafts from causing flickering and unsteadiness of lights and to keep the circulation of air .within a lantern the same whether the wind or drafts blow or not. n

To these and other ends hereinafter set forth the invention, stated in general terms, comprises a lantern-bottom of generally conic form provided with radiating vanes or wings and having a foraminous top; and the invention further comprises a lantern-bottom of conic shape having radiating wings or vanes and having at its top a chamber between foraminous walls; and the invention further comprises the improvements to be presenti described and dually claimed. v

In the drawings, Figure l is, a view, principally in central section, illustrating a lantern-bottom embodying features of the in-4 vention. Fig. 2 is a top or plan view of the same, and Fig. 3 is aside view illustrating a lantern equipped with a lantern-bottom embodying features of thcvinvention.

In the drawings,'l is the conic lan tern-bottom,provided with radially-arranged wings or vanes 2. At the top of the wings or vanes 2 is arrangeda foraminous wall 3, above which is another foraminous wall 4E, so that a chamber is provided between these walls. As shown in the drawings, the lantern-bottom is carried by the pipe 5, which also carries the burners 6 and their accessories, which may be of the incandescent type. The globe 7 rests upon the bottom, andY above it is arranged a wind guard or cap 8, fitted with a reflector 9.

l0 is the lever for controlling the gas-supply, and its operating rods or chains 11 are shown as passing through openings 12 and 13, provided in the foraminous walls and inthe conic portionof the bottom. Furthermore, as illustrated in the drawings, the conic portion l is provided with asleeve 14., having set screws l5 and arranged to be secured to the end of the pipe 5. The end of the pipe 5 is shown as provided with a screw-plug i6 and constitutes a drip.

In use drafts are directed upward through the lantern by the conicportion l and Wings or vanes 2 and are not permitted to enter the lantern from lateral directions, so that even when the wind blows the circulation is the ysame-namely, upwardthrough the lanternas it is when the wind does not blow. The only thing that the wind does is to perhaps increase this upward circulation. The chamber between the two foraminous walls when present serves to further promote the accom plishm'ent of the described upward circulation through the lantern.

Itrwill be obvious to those skilled in the art to which my invention appertains that modiiications may be made in detail without departing from the spirit thereof. Hence I do vnot limit myself to the precise construction jects of my invention, what I claim as new, Y

2. A lantern-bottom comprisinga chamber inclosed between foraminous walls, and a conicportion arranged below the same and provided with vanes, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed my name.

THOMAS J. LITLE, JR.

In presence of- K. M. GILLIGAN, W. J. JACKSON. 

